MDC seeks new Zimbabwe election
BBC News, Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has called for new elections, after regional talks on the power-sharing deal were postponed for a week.
New polls are the “only way forward”, Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa told the BBC.
Neighbouring Botswana has also called for new elections.
The MDC and the ruling Zanu-PF agreed to share power last month but they cannot agree on the details. A BBC reporter says there is a lack of trust.
The BBC’s Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg says the atmosphere between the two parties is absolutely toxic.
A summit in Swaziland to discuss the deadlocked power-sharing agreement was postponed after the MDC insisted that its leader Morgan Tsvangirai be granted a passport.
